Rachel Corrie entered Gaza's war zone where IDF counterterrorism operations were trying to stop the suicide bombers and mass murder of Israelis. By the time of Rachel's death in March 2003, 950 Israelis had been killed and thousands wounded in over 100 suicide terrorist attacks. Less than two weeks before her death, a suicide bomber blew up a bus in Haifa, killing 17 Israelis and wounding 53.
My Name Is Rachel Corrie depicts innocent, unprovoked residents of Gaza whose houses were arbitrarily destroyed by Israeli bulldozers. In fact, the houses targeted by the anti-terrorist efforts were those of key terrorist leaders, or that were used to construct and conceal weapons-smuggling tunnels.
Israel's anti-terrorism efforts were aimed at stopping the flow of weapons and explosives from Egypt into Gaza, where they would be used for suicide bombings and mass killings of Israeli men, women and children. In 2002, the IDF uncovered and demolished 33 tunnels. In 2003, the year Rachel was in Gaza, Israel demolished an additional 20 weapons-smuggling tunnels. Rachel was killed while trying to prevent the destruction of one of these tunnels. Had she been successful, the effect would have been to facilitate terrorism and the enable the murder of innocent Israeli civilians.
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